As of August 1983 the US has its own 17 character long VIN (Vehicle Identification Number). Unfortunately this VIN does not comply with the internationally used FIN (Fahrzug Identifikations Nr. or Fahrgestell Nr.) used by MB elsewhere. So all official papers in the US use this VIN. It can be decoded to an MB international FIN and you can read model year, safety restraint system and production plant form it. Here is even a program to decode it.

Many of the data cards for our 107 SLs and SLCs are not available or wrongly decoded in EPC. That's why Frank has listed all codes for special version (SA) and added its original description to it. That's what should enable you to decode your data card yourself.